Hoot Owl Sprint 2013

The Hoot Owl Sprint is a unique QRP ARCI contest because it is held on Saturday night at 8 pm in your “local” time zone and not UTC.

You can enter as an all band, single band, high band or low band station and then pick the antenna and power category that matches your personal setup and compete with similar equipped stations around the country and around the world.

2013 QRP ARCI Hoot Owl Sprint

A) DATE/TIME: 8pm to Midnight LOCAL TIME on Saturday 25 May 2013

B) OBJECTIVE:

To test your ability to make contacts late into the evening local time.

C) MODE:

HF CW Only.

D) EXCHANGE:

Members send: RST, State/Province/Country, ARCI member number Non-Members send: RST, State/Province/Country, Power Out

Final Score = Points (total for all bands) x SPCs (total for all bands) x Power Multiplier Bonus Points.

BONUS POINTS:

If you are operating PORTABLE using battery power AND a temporary antenna, add 5000 points to your final score.

You can NOT be at your shack operating from battery power using your home station antenna to qualify for this bonus.

This is to help level the playing field for contesters who work from the field against contest stations with 5 element yagis at 70 ft.

J) CATEGORIES:

Entry may be All-Band (AB), Single Band (e.g., SB-160, 80, 40, 20, 15 or 10), High Bands-HB (10m, 15m and 20m) or Low Bands-LB (40m, 80m and 160m)

Antennas: Entry may be A1 or A2

A1: Single Element Antenna

If you are using a single element antenna such as a dipole, inverted V, loop

or a vertical you can enter the A1 category. ( Note that with a vertical you can have as many radials as you want but only one “vertical” element. )

A2: Multiple Element Antenna

If you are using a multi element beam, vertical array, or any antenna that has more than one driven element or uses reflective or directive elements you are in the A2 category.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

Get on any of the HF bands except the WARC bands and hang out near the QRP frequencies. Work as many stations calling CQ QRP or CQ TEST as possible, or call CQ QRP or CQ TEST yourself !

You can work a station for credit once on each band.

K) Email Log Submission:

Submit Logs in plain text format along with a summary stating your Call Sign, Entry Category, total # of QSOs with members, total # of QSOs with non-members on different continent, total # of QSOs with non-members same continent, total # of SPCs worked, Actual Power, Station Description,

along with score calculation to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Snail mail Log Submission:

Submit Logs in plain text format along with a summary stating your Call Sign, Entry Category, total # of QSOs with members, total # of QSOs with non-members on different continent, total # of QSOs with non-members same continent, total # of SPCs worked, Actual Power, Station Description,

Entries must be received OR postmarked on or before 9 June, 2013. If you are using snail mail for entering log entries, notify the contest manager atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. when you mailed your entry.

M) RESULTS:

Will be published in QRP Quarterly and shown on the QRP-ARCI website.

O) CERTIFICATES:

Will be awarded to the top scoring entrant in each category, as well as the top scoring entrants from each State, Province and Country.

Certificates may be awarded for 2nd and 3rd place if there are sufficient entries in a category.

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